Rutherford and Oliphant: the Physics of the Affair

From tree-pruning to atom bombs, on the death of physicist Sir Mark Oliphant the Guardian remembers the contribution his friendship with Sir Ernest Rutherford made to Twentieth Century science, “[Oliphant’s] greatest personal triumphs in science came in the 1930s, when his friendship with the New Zealander Ernest Rutherford was at its height.”